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NL-KR Digest (Wed Mar 13 10:37:27 1991) Volume 8 No. 12 Today's Topics: Prague Summer School AAAI Spring Symp. in MLNLO reminder on RIAO '91 CILS Calendar March 11, 1991 Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.10.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPIECS and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPIECS. [Note: This is all the submissions as of the time/date above. We had bizarre mail problems the past two days which may (or may not) have caused some losses. If you posted something that has not appeared yet, post it again.] ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: Jan Hajic <haj@divsun.unige.ch> To: wiley!ai-chi <wiley!ai-chi@lll-lcc.arpa> Subject: Prague Summer School ****************************************************** *** SUMMER SCHOOL IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS *** *** Formal and Computational Models of Meaning *** ****************************************************** TIME AND PLACE: July 8-21, 1991, Prague, Czechoslovakia ORGANIZERS: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University COURSES: - - Jurij D. Apresjan, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR: The Types of Lexical Information for a Dictionary in an Integrated Linguistic Description - - B.T.Sue Atkins, Oxford University Press, UK: Lexicography for Computational Linguistics - - Christian Boitet, G.E.T.A., Grenoble, France: Meaning and Understanding in Machine Translation - - Jens Erik Fenstad, University of Oslo, Norway: Computational Semantics - - Charles J. Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley, USA: Semantic Interpretation and Construction Grammar - - Eva Hajicova and Petr Sgall, Charles University, Prague: A Functional Approach to the Meaning of the Sentence and to Intersentential Links - - George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley, USA: Cognitive Semantics - - Martha E. Pollack, SRI International, USA: Contextual Influences on Meaning - - James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA: Computational Lexical Semantics - - Mats Rooth, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA: Formal Semantics - - Hans Uszkoreit, University of Saarbruecken, Germany: New Developments in Grammar Formalisms - - Wolfgang Wahlster, University of Saarbruecken, Germany: Discourse and User Models The programme will be organized in four 90 minute non-overlapping blocks per day. FEES: 900 USD for industrial participants 700 USD for academic community The fees cover the costs of all courses, a welcome party, a guided tour of Prague, accomodation in double rooms in the University students hostel for the whole period of the School (14 nights, 10 USD per night), and 3 meals per day in the students canteen (13 days, 8 USD per day). There is a limited number of beds available for accompanying persons (20 USD per night). Registration is possible without accomodation and meals, with a registration fee of 450 USD for academic community and 650 USD for industrial participants. The organizers cannot take the responsibility for hotel accomodation. REGISTRATION: The deadline for registration is April 30, 1991, but it is important to react as soon as possible, as the courses have limitations on the number of participants. You can either ask for a brochure containing more details with the Registration Form attached, or simply send the following data along with an evidence of the payment of the registration fee: Registration form Name: Affiliation (university or company): Address for correspondence: e-mail address: Telephone: Specify: industrial participant / academic institution / student Do you wish to reserve room and meals in the University hostel? (Y/N) Fees (specify the amount paid): Registration fee: Date: (Signature:) The address and other contact: MFF UK - linguistics, c/o Dr. Eva Hajicova Malostranske nam. 25, 118 00 Praha 1, Czechoslovakia Voice: +42-2-532136 Fax: +42-2-847688 (attn. MFF UK linguistics) e-mail: MATRACE@CSPUNI12.BITNET (or UMLEH@CSEARN.BITNET) PAYMENT: The fee should be paid before April 30, 1991. Cheques are payable to "ACL", use Swiss franc or a European currency equivalent on date the cheque is signed and be sure the cheque is payable in Switzerland or France. Cheques in USD must be drawn on a US bank. Send the cheque with a copy of the registration form to Michael Rosner (the address below). Bank transfer: Credit Union Bank of Switzerland, Geneva, a/c "Association of Computational Linguistics", 141.880.LAV. Send a copy of the registration form to Michael Rosner: Michael Rosner (Prague Summer School) IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, 6900 LUGANO, Switzerland Arrivals: Sunday, June 7, 1991 Beginning of the School: Monday, July 8, 9 a.m. End of the School: Saturday, July 20, 6 p.m. Departures: Sunday, July 21 Registration desk: open at July 7, 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., in the building of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Praha 8 - Troja, Str. V Holesovickach 2. How to get there: Underground ("Metro") line C, terminal "Nadrazi Holesovice", from there one stop by bus No. 156 or 175. The faculty building is the tall building on the same side of the road as the bus stop. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Thu, 7 Mar 91 17:13:59 EST >From: reeker@ida.org (Larry Reeker) Subject: AAAI Spring Symp. in MLNLO The working papers for the AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Learning of Natural Language and Ontology are listed below, in alphabetical order. Most are a few pages in length, but some are shorter statements of research interests and background by participants. The AAAISS on MLNLO is being held at Stanford on 26-28 March, 1991. The program committee for the Symposium is David Powers (Chair), Larry Reeker, Manny Rayner, and Chris Turk. Preface David M.W. Powers A Model of Symbol Grounding in a Temporal Environment Brian T. Bartell & Garrison W. Cottrell >From Rules to Principles in Language Acquisition: A View from the Bridge Robert C. Berwick Automatically Inferring Dictionaries from Natural Text and Simple Grammar Michael R. Brent Learning Complex Syntax Within a Semantic Parser Claire Cardie & Wendy Lehnert A Computational Model of Parameter Setting Robin Clark Applications of Training Data in Semantic Processing Deborah A. Dahl Discovering Planar Segregations T Mark Ellison Applying Some CFL Learnability Results to Natural Language Learning Leona F. Fass Making Phrase Structure Grammars Learnable Janet Dean Fodor A Case-Based, Inductive Architecture for Natural Language Processing Marc Goodman Categorical Perception and the Evolution of Supervised Learning in Neural Nets Stevan Harnad, Stephen J. Hanson, & Joseph Lubin Recurrent Neural Nets for Natural Language Acquisition Bill Hart Automatic Acquisition of Word Meanings Peter M. Hastings & Steven L. Lytinen Hybrid Models of Natural Language Learning Jane C. Hill Toward Integrated Models of Natural Language Evolution, Development, Acquisition and Communication in Multi-Agent Environments Vasant Honavar Restrictions on Grammar Size in Language Identification Sanjay Jain & Arun Sharma Acquiring the Semantics of Simple Phrasal Patterns Using COBUILD Narciso Jaramillo & Marti Hearst On Building a Model of Grammar from Information in the Lexicon Rick Kazman Machine Learning and Language Acquisition Pat Langley A Model of the Development of Phrase-Structure David LeBlanc & Henry Davis Cognitive Modeling of Second Language Acquisition Steven L. Lytinen & Carol E. Moon Mutual Information, Deducing Linguistic Structure David Magerman The Automatic Acquisition of Linguistic Structure from Large Corpora: An Overview of Work at the University of Pennsylvania Mitchell Marcus Learning Conventional Metaphors and Learning Using Conventional Metaphors James H. Martin How Far Can Self-Organization Go? Results in Unsupervised Language Learning David M. W. Powers Language Learning and Adaptive User Interfaces Larry H. Reeker Explanation-Based Learning as a Tuning Tool for Large-Scale Natural Language Interfaces Christer Samuelsson & Manny Rayner Learning Simple Semantics by Self-Organization J. C. Scholtes How Do Children Learn to Recognize Ungrammatical Sentences? Mallory Selfridge Dispelling Myths about Language Bootstrapping Jeffrey Mark Siskind Naive Physics, Event Perception, Lexical Semantics and Language Acquisition Jeffrey Mark Siskind Explanation-Based Learning from Rule-Governed Features in Phonological Representations Scott Stethem Vector Space Grammars and the Acquisition of Syntactic Categories: Getting Connectionist and Traditional Models to Learn from Each Other Andreas Stolcke Knowledge and Language Jeroem van der Leeuw Connectionist Semantics for Miniature Language Acquisition Susan H. Weber Learning and Representing Natural Language Phrases in a Hybrid Symbolic/Connectionist Approach Stefan Wermter ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 12 Mar 91 20:49:14 -0500 >From: fox@fox.cs.vt.edu (Edward A. Fox) Subject: reminder on RIAO '91 This is a reminder, now that travel is safer. RIAO 91 CONFERENCE: with presentation of prototypes and operational systems INTELLIGENT TEXT AND IMAGE HANDLING Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain - April 2-5, 1991 TUTORIALS Tuesday April 2, 1991 9 h.-12 h. Hypermedia 14 h.-17 h. S.G.M.L. Wednesday April 3, 1991 9 h. - 12 h. Neural Networks in Information Processing 14 h.- 17 h. Optical Memories TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1991 9:30-11:20 INTRODUCTION and OPENING SESSION 1 : HYPERMEDIA 1 11:20-11:45 Architecture and functions for a conceptual interface to very large online bibliographic collections. 11:45-12:10 INIST experience in hyper-document building from bibliographic databases. 12:10-12:35 Super-library: an environment for the conversion of linear texts into hypertexts. 12:35-1:00 A connection graph for user navigation in a large image bank. SESSION 2 : HYPERMEDIA 2 2:10-2:35 A system for managing multimedia dossiers. 2:35-3:00 Classification and information retrieval in hypertext systems. 3:00-3:25 An intelligent multimedia information handling system. 3:25-3:50 An application of a knowledge communication model for a tutoring system. SESSION 3 : DOCUMENT INPUT 4:45-5:10 How to take advantages of word structure in printed character recognition. 5:10-5:35 Merging optical character recognition outputs for improved accuracy. 5:35-6:00 Visual parsing: an aid to text understanding. 6:00-6:25 Text line extraction and baseline direction. 6:25-6:50 Automated entry system for handwritten documents. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1991 SESSION 4 : STRUCTURED TEXT AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE 9:00-9:25 SGML documents and non-linear text retrieval. 9:25-9:50 A hyperdocument model based on the ODA standard. 9:50-10:15 The use of retrieval filters to localize information in a hierarchically tagged text-dominated database. 10:15-10:40 An object-oriented architecture for text retrieval. SESSION 5 : INTERFACES 11:20-11:45 Manipulable inter-medium encodings for information retrieval. 11:45-12:10 LEXITRAN for an easier public access to a patent database. 12:10-12:35 Hypermedia and probabilistic retrieval. 12:35-1:00 Sophocle: a workshop for analysing the written language production in a realistic dialog situation. SESSION 6 : NATURAL LANGUAGE 2:20-2:45 Outline of a database model for electronic dictionaries. 2:45-3:10 Multi-experts system for documentary research. 3:10-3:35 Using morpho-syntactic language analysis in phrase matching. 3:35-4:00 An expert-system for French analysis within a multi- mode dialogue to be connected. SESSION 7 : MULTILINGUISM 4:45-5:10 The EUROTRA front end. 5:10-5:35 Multingual access to textual databases. 5:35-6:00 Remote access to the METAL translation system. 6:00-6:25 Nat-Multilingual: tools for multilingual interfaces in databases. THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 SESSION 8: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM 1 9:00-9:25 Experiments on linguistically based term associations. 9:25-9:50 An associative neural experts system for information retrieval. 9:50-10:15 On "diesel train1 engines" and "to train2 airline pilots": Tagging words senses in corpus. 10:15-10:40 A system for efficient full-text retrieval. SESSION 9: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM 2 11:20-11:45 AIR/X - A rule-based multistage indexing system for large subject fields. 11:45-12:10 Automatic indexing using selective NLP and first-order thesauri. 12:10-12:35 Efficient probabilistic inference for text retrieval. 12:35-1:00 Bayesien inference networks in hypertext. SESSION 10 : KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FROM TEXT 1 2:20-2:45 Syntax and semantics in a text interpretation system. 2:45-3:10 Extracting implicit information from free text technical reports. 3:10-3:35 Processing natural language for an expert system using a sublanguage approach. 3:35-4:00 Automatic extraction of factual information from text and its integration in a knowledge base. SESSION 11: KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FROM TEXT 2 4:45-5:10 Natural language processing of the texts of chemical patent abstracts. 5:10-5:35 Personal name pattern matching 5:35-6:00 A temporal analyser for unrestricted texts. 6:00-6:25 Multilingual access to documentary databases. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1991 SESSION 12 : INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND DBMS 9:00-9:25 Paraphrasing SQL to natural language. 9:25-9:50 The end-user's view of his data managed by a relational DBMS. 9:50-10:15 Machine learning principles in application to a transportable natural language database interface. 10:15-10:40 Hypertext interface for an object-oriented database. SESSION 13: IMAGE HANDLING 11:20-11:45 Automatic image indexation and retrieval. 11:45-12:10 Digital prefix coding trees: an efficient structure for image data storage and manipulation. 12:10-12:35 Discovery of conceptual categories in an image database. 12:35-1:00 Semantic-based query formulation in PAS. SESSION 14: SPEECH TECHNOLOGY AND DATA COMPRESSION 2:20-2:45 Spoken language systems for human/machine interfaces. 2:45-3:10 A system for reducing imprecision in speech interfaces to generalized text input devices. 3:10-3:35 The ARTFL data compression project. 3:35-4:00 Towards the ultimate text compression method for help systems. 4:00-4:40 BREAK AND DEMONSTRATIONS 4:40-5:40 DEBATE 5:40-6:00 CONCLUSIONS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS MAX (ECHO - European Commission Host Organization, Luxemburg) Voice-activated telephone system. AUDIOTEX (CTNE, Telefonica I + D, Spain) Telephone "News service". STO3/STO4 Speech Recognizer System (G. Bekery Acoustical Research Laboratory, Hungary) SGML/Search (Berger Levrault- Advanced Information System, France) Information retrieval system based on the SGML standard. ZEN (BULL, France) A hypertext system running under X-Windows on most Unix platforms. GUIDE, IDEX (OWL, Great Britain) CD-SIMULATOR (ELEKTROSON, Nederland) CD-ROM data-preparation system. TOPIC (Verity, USA) Graph-based document retrieval system. PRIAM (SY-MEDIA, France) Real-time news bulletin reception, indexation and consultation. MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEM (IN TECS, Italy) Documentation system for browsing words, graphics, photos. TAKE 5 (EDIAT, France) A document storage and retrieval system providing a multi-lingual interface and pseudo-natural language querying. SPIRIT (SYSTEX, France) A full text information retrieval system based on morphological, syntactic and statistical analysis. DOXIS (ERGOSUM, France) An information management system, designed to handle both structured data and full text. STATUS/E (HARWELL COMPUTER POWER LTD, Great-Britain) An information management system used for storage and ranked retrieval of large volumes of structured and unstructured text. PSIDOC (JOUVE, France) Set of software tools used for developing applications of input, storing, retrieval, and output of documentary data bases. MOVIE (COSM, France) An information retrieval software that assists users in searching information through an interactive decision making system. ILIADA (Software AG, Spain) System integrating information retrieval and library management systems, with full text and hypertext support. ALCESTE (IMAGE, France) Analyses the semantic contents of a set of texts. MAZDABASE (M.C.P. Edition, France) Catalog of Mazda lighting products on a CD-ROM in English and French. PESTICIDES (Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain) CD-ROM product called "Pesticids Disk" which includes details on 15.000 pesticide products used in 25 European countries. MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM (CTU Univ. of Milan, Italy) Project of hypermedia for teaching biological sciences. METAL (Siemens, Germany, Spain) A machine translation system working on several languages. TEXIRIS 2 PLUS (Image Recognition Integrated Systems IRIS, Belgium) Omnifont optical character recognition system. 12-language dictionary. READSTAR on a TRANSPUTER card (Inovatic, France) Rapid character-recognition using the powerful parallel processing of a TRANSPUTER card and the READSTAR software. TEXTPERT (CTA, Spain) Optical character recognition software for MacIntosh and Windows/PC. Intelligent post processing in Modern Gateways (CRRM, France) Particularly useful for patents, chemistry and physics. Intelligent Information (INFOTAP, Luxemburg) System accessing more that 200 data banks in Europe and the U.S. EPOQUE (European Patent Office) CEE Holland OS/2 software allowing simplified access to the European Patent Office Data Bases, etc. AMI "Attribution de Messages Intelligente" (Thomson RCC and CORA, France) Automatic Message sorting in French and German. IMAGEDB (CSI, Spain) Image database management combined with structured or unstructured information. AUTOMABB (MABB Sistemas Interactivos, Spain) Authoring system for multimedia databases on PC integrating videodisk and CD-ROM. INFODOC (INFODOC SA, Spain) A document storage and retrieval system coupled with an image processing system CLARITY (Micronet, Spain) Electronic archiving system managing texts and images. HYPARCHIV (ACS Systembereitung, Germany) Electronic management system with Windows 3.0 and hypertext. For more information contact: CASIS c/o Mrs. MAURICE 220 East 72nd Street #10F New York N.Y. 10021 U.S.A. Tel.: (212) 879 4019 or CID 36 bis, rue Ballu 75009 PARIS, FRANCE Tel.: (33-1) 48 74 53 05 Fax: (33-1) 43 58 14 15 ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: CILS Calendar March 11, 1991 X-Mailer: MH 6.6 #5[UCI] Date: Mon, 11 Mar 91 17:37:10 -0600 >From: colleen@tira.uchicago.edu _________________ T H E C I L S C A L E N D A R ________________ The Center for Information and Language Studies Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 Subscription requests to: cils@tira.uchicago.edu ____________________________________________________________________ Vol. 1, No. 19 March 11, 1991 ~*~ Upcoming events: 3/11 16:00 Wb 130 Workshop Philip R. Cohen, SRI International 3/25 14:30 Ry 276 Lecture Hans van Haleren, Univ. of Nijmegen - ------------------------------ MONDAY, MARCH 11 4:00 Workshop Wb 130 The Pragmatics of Language Philip R. Cohen, Computer Dialogue Laboratory Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International (pcohen@ai.sri.com) "Confirmations and Joint Action" Abstract in last week's calendar. For more information, please contact Jerrold Sadock (2-8524), Department of Linguistics, Josef Stern, Department of Philosophy (2-8594), or Scott Deerwester, CILS (2-6948). ___________________ MONDAY, MARCH 25 2:30 Lecture Ry 276 Hans van Halteren (cor_hvh@kunrc1.urc.kun.nl) Dept. of English, University of Nijmegen "The Linguistic DataBase (LDB)" The LDB is a database system developed by the TOSCA group at Nijmegen University which allows linguists who are not experts in computing to access syntactically analyzed corpora. The data in the database comprises `syntactic analysis trees' of the contiguous utterances in a natural-language text. Since these trees are built from a continuous text, they give a good representation of actual language use and can thus provide a testing ground for linguistic hypotheses. The range of extractable information in such a database is mainly dependent on the degree to which the text has been prepared. Formerly studies of corpora were restricted to the level of words or word-classes, but with the Linguistic DataBase it becomes possible to extend these studies to the level of syntax, so that larger constituents can be analyzed. Unlike currently available database packages, the LDB has been created specifically to handle the type of data linguists need to analyze - a labelled tree structure with a variable number of branches at each node and the possibility of recursion. The LDB can be used to examine the trees on the terminal screen, search for utterances with given properties, and handle database-wide queries about constructs in the utterances. The LDB does not presume special graphics hardware. For this reason it has been implemented for common machines (VAX and IBM PC/AT) and common terminals (VT100, ADM3, etc.). Where possible, special terminal features are used, such as highlighting and graphics characters, but even on the so- called `dumb' ADM3A the trees are represented by an acceptable imitation of graphics. Terminal types not already provided for can be easily installed by the user. The LDB also does not presume a computationally expert user. Thus control of the program is designed to be simple and clear. The overall control is handled by a menu system, which displays short descriptions of the choices, each of which can be activated by a single keystroke. In the Tree Viewer, which is used to examine an analysis tree on the terminal screen, there is not enough space left on the screen to produce these descriptions, so that commands (mostly of one keystroke) are listed in abbreviated form. A description of all commands can be accessed by a `help' command, however. For queries going beyond a single tree, the Exploration Scheme formalism has been developed. An Exploration Scheme consists of a search pattern, itself a tree much like the analysis trees, and a specification of the operations to be performed on the information the pattern discovers. The possibilities of Exploration Schemes are various. They range from a simple search for a tree, in order to examine it with the Tree Viewer, to the creation of frequency tables. The formalism is designed in such a way that the novice can start exploring immediately. From there, he can gradually expand his knowledge to the more complex features. In order to facilitate formulating Exploration Schemes the LDB has a special scheme editor. The LDB package comes with the Nijmegen Corpus, a 130,000 word collection of modern British English with a full syntactic analysis of each utterance. To each node in the tree (i.e. each constituent in the utterance) has been attached a function and a category label. In the future more corpora will become available. Furthermore, since the database system is independent of both formalism and language, it is possible to use it for any other kind of analyzed corpus. For more information contact Hans van Halteren, TOSCA Group, Department of English, University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen, The Netherlands. - -------------- End of CILS Calendar ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************